Watch Franz Ferdinand’s rousing cover of Chappell Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe’

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Franz Ferdinand have taken on Chappell Roan‘s ‘Good Luck Babe’. Check it out below.The band played the Grammy-nominated track, from Roan’s 2023 album ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 show last night (November 27).Ahead of their performance, frontman Alex Kapranos told Whiley: “It’s just an amazing song by an incredible artist,” adding: “It’s funny, you get some artists that have a moment, often it’s kind of divisive.“Some people absolutely love them and some people hate them.

But I’ve not come across anybody I know, none of my friends, nobody I know, who doesn’t like this artist. They’re just so good.

This song’s incredible so we’re going to play it.”The cover sees them imbue the pop track with an indie edge. You can check it out below.A post shared by BBC Radio 2 (@bbcradio2)Franz Ferdinand are set to release their upcoming album ‘The Human Fear’ on January 10, 2025 via Domino.

So far, they’ve shared the singles ‘Night Or Day’ and ‘Audacious’. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.Produced by Mark Ralph (who previously worked with the Scottish Mercury Prize-winners on 2013’s ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’), ‘The Human Fear’ marks the band’s first studio album since 2018’s acclaimed and dance-driven ‘Always Ascending’.A press release promises that the 11 tracks on the album will “all allude to some deep-set human fears and how overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.”Speaking to NME about the LP, Kapranos shared: “I don’t think there’s a single song that you’ll hear on the album and won’t think, ‘Oh, is that Franz Ferdinand?’ At the same time, there will be thinking, ‘Oh, did they really do that?’ That’s not to say I start rapping or anything.